Monodrama, a drama acted or designed to be acted by a single person. A number of plays by Samuel Beckett, including Krapp’s Last Tape (first performed 1958) and Happy Days (1961), are monodramas. The term may also refer to a dramatic representation of what passes in an individual mind, as well as to a musical drama for a solo performer.

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April 13?, 1906 Foxrock, County Dublin, Ireland December 22, 1989 Paris, France author, critic, and playwright, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1969. He wrote in both French and English and is perhaps best known for his plays, especially En attendant Godot (1952; Waiting for Godot).